Snubs, surprises: It's all a part of the Academy Award game

9:28 PM,
Jan. 10, 2013

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Todd Hill
News Journal

The snubs were inevitable. But one person's snub is another person's pleasant surprise, and that's what Thursday's Oscar nominations were all about.

This is what happens when the movies have as strong a year as they did in 2012. There simply weren't enough nominations to go around, except in the relatively open category of Best Picture. Let's start today's analysis there.Best picture

Nine nominees, of course, is far too many. In the old days, when the category was limited to five pictures, titles like the magical realism fable "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and Quentin Tarantino's "Django ...